According to the OP in this thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=119445&page=1&str=60096205#8

Enslaved has sold 800k copies, thats according to namco bandai apparently, but vgchartz has it tracked at about 200k last i checked. can anyone shed some light on this issue, because it might not have been the disaster we all think if thats the case....

That obviously is shipped number and with the game setting new records in speed of price drops it's rather badly overshipped.

A new Goemon game would do much better than Castlevania. Don't know what Konami is thinking. Where are Suikoden, Silent Hill (japanese) and Metal Gear 5?

Yeah thats what i suspected, its just that i had hoped the numbers were heavily undertracked. but your right the speed of price drops suggests the former.

So, Enslaved will be a failure concerning the total of sales.  As I have said before, this makes me sad.  A great game will be remembered for the wrong reasons.

I think they should have waited a few months before realising it.  I mean, it's not like everyone was waiting for it.  I found out about the game a week before it came out.  When you look at it, it came out in a short time period that saw many anticipated games being released (Black Ops, Fallout New Vegas, Force Unleashed 2, Fable 3...).  Not counting Casltevania in there.  Pretty rough competition.  Anyway, we will never know.

But, I think some publishers should at least wait a few weeks or their games will go completly unnoticed.  Look at Arcania: Gothic IV.  I know it's not a masterpiece, but it is completly overlooked.  My Gamestop doesn't even have a copy of the game! So Enslaved could have done much better.  The price cut will help, I hope.  Still very proud I supported this game since day one.

What is enslaved ?

This, basically.  A relatively short but well made (in my opinion) action game with great production values that nobody bought.

Blood Stone is at 63 on metacritic and it sold 71,426 FW (excluding PC sales). That is half what Goldeneye did on the Wii. Far from being a flop I think.

That is a major flop. It will probably struggle to do 300k on either console.

You are way too generous on the use of the word "flop". You're making it obsolete.

You don't even know what were their expectations. They didn't even advertised the game.

It will surely reach at least 500k on PS3 and 360. I think it isn't too bad.